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Interface Design
date
article
2014-05-13 Learn to Love Auto Layout... Programmatically
by Yari D'areglia (over at Think & Build)
2014-03-28 Designing Interfaces for iOS 6 and iOS 7
by Christian Keur (over at The Nerd Blog)
2014-02-10 Video Tutorial: Beginning Auto Layout (Video)
by Ray Wenderlich (over at Ray Wenderlich)
2014-02-01 String Rendering
by Chris Eidhof, Daniel Eggert, Florian Kugler (over at objc)
2013-12-01 Custom Formatters
by Klaas Pieter Annema (over at objc)
2013-11-06 Stretchable Images Using Interface Builder
by Karol Kozub (over at Macroscope Blog)
2013-10-29 Storyboards Tutorial in iOS 7: Part 2
by Matthijs Hollemans (over at Ray Wenderlich)
2013-10-28 Storyboards Tutorial in iOS 7: Part 1
by Matthijs Hollemans (over at Ray Wenderlich)
2013-10-16 Beginning Auto Layout Tutorial in iOS 7: Part 2
by Matthijs Hollemans (over at Ray Wenderlich)
2013-10-16 Beginning Auto Layout Tutorial in iOS 7: Part 1
by Matthijs Hollemans (over at Ray Wenderlich)
2013-10-14 Don’t Cross The Streams
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2013-08-01 Advanced Auto Layout Toolbox
by Joe Conway (over at objc)
2013-04-22 Auto Layout Performance on iOS
by Florian Kugler (over at Florian Kugler)
2013-04-20 IBOutlets in 2013
by Nicolas Bouilleaud (over at bou.io)
2013-04-15 Interface Builder – Curse or Convenience?
by Florian Kugler (over at Florian Kugler)
2013-03-31 10 Things You Need To Know About Cocoa Autolayout
by Ole Begemann (over at Ole Begemann)
2012-07-11 XIBs, Container Views, and Auto Layout (oh my)
by Michael Fey (over at Core Fruition)
2012-07-05 Customizing Appearance With Resizable Images
by Keith Harrison (over at Use Your Loaf)
2012-02-22 How To Create a Rotating Wheel Control with UIKit
by Cesare Rocchi (over at Ray Wenderlich)
2011-12-11 Building a custom NSButton
by Uli Kusterer (over at Orange Juice Liberation Front)
2011-11-19 Themeing NSTableView
by Uli Kusterer (over at Orange Juice Liberation Front)
2011-11-03 Outlet Collections
by Mark Dalrymple (over at Borkware)
2011-11-01 On/Off Switches
by Matt Gemmell (over at Matt Legend Gemmell)
2011-10-31 Favorites 2 UI Design
by Matt Gemmell (over at Matt Legend Gemmell)
2011-09-06 Circular Layout and Scrolling – Part 2
by Ryan (over at Ryan's App Blog)
2011-08-22 Using CGAffineTransform for Circular Layout and Scrolling
by Ryan (over at Ryan's App Blog)
2011-07-05 Irregular touch detection, when CGRect is not enough – part 1
by Chris Wilson (over at abitofcode)
2011-05-05 Presenting a Mac dialog sheet with visual cue effects
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2011-04-25 Dive Into Interface Builder
by Jack Herrington (over at BuildMobile)
2011-03-28 Interface Builder Outlet Collections
by Keith Harrison (over at Use Your Loaf)
2010-12-23 Bars Like the New York Times App
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2010-12-20 User Interface: customize or not - that is the question
by JF Martin (over at Building iPhone Apps)
2010-12-01 Designing for Retina display, part two
by anonymous (over at bjango)
2010-10-17 Assert Yourself!
by Alex Vollmer (over at Alex Vollmer)
2010-10-16 Exploiting Human Imperfection in Your Human Interfaces
by anonymous (over at The Mental Blog)
2010-10-14 Outlets, Cocoa vs. Cocoa Touch
by Jeff LaMarche (over at iPhone Development)
2010-10-07 Custom-Colored Disclosure Indicators
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2010-09-26 A ZoomingViewController to animate a UIView to fullscreen
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2010-09-22 Custom UIButtons via Subclassing
by Chris Liscio (over at SuperMegaUltraGroovy)
2010-09-20 iPad and iOS 4 Custom Font Loading
by Nathan Eror (over at Free Time Studios)
2010-09-13 Custom Fonts on the iPad and iOS 4
by Nathan Eror (over at Free Time Studios)
2010-08-26 Designing for Retina display
by anonymous (over at bjango)
2010-08-18 A Short Note About Modal Presentation
by Dave Smith (over at Wires Are Obsolete)
2010-07-01 Multi-line/Autoresizing UITextView similar to SMS-app
by Hans Pinckaers (over at Hans Pinckaers)
2010-06-26 Hacking UIScrollView Gesture Recognizers
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2010-06-09 Good User Interface Design on Mac OS X and the iPhone OS
by Colin Wheeler (over at Cocoa Samurai)
2010-06-03 Objective-C Categories as Stylesheets
by Adrian Kosmaczewski (over at akosma software)
2010-05-18 Programmatic Gradient Buttons
by Jeff LaMarche (over at iPhone Development)
2010-04-23 Friday Q&A: Implementing a Custom Slider
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2010-03-26 Irregularly Shaped UIButtons
by Jeff LaMarche (over at iPhone Development)
2010-03-15 Custom UI Bindings in Interface Builder
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2009-12-18 Bottom Bars in Interface Builder
by Dave Dribin (over at Dave Dribin's Blog)
2009-10-30 Your Very Own Drag Show with JLNDragEffectManager
by Joshua Nozzi (over at Joshua Nozzi)
2009-10-04 How to Mimic the Artwork Column in Cocoa
by Jesper (over at waffle)
2009-07-29 iPhone Programming Fundamentals - Outlets and Actions
by Wei-Meng Lee (over at mobiForge)
2009-07-23 Create iPhone Interfaces Easily With Keynote
by Johann Dowa (over at iPhone Development Tutorials and Tips)
2009-07-11 Finishing With Interface Builder - Building Your iPhone Apps Interface Quickly 2/2
by Johann Dowa (over at iPhone Development Tutorials and Tips)
2009-07-07 Building Your iPhone App's Interface Quickly
by Johann Dowa (over at iPhone Development Tutorials and Tips)
2009-07-02 Custom views in Interface Builder using IBPlugins
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2009-05-24 Flippin' Modal Panels
by Jeremy Gordon (over at Cocoa Convert)
2009-05-09 "Exitable" user interface, part 2 - delegation using a protocol
by Henrik B (over at Humble Coder)
2009-05-07 Creating an "exitable" user interfaces
by Henrik B (over at Humble Coder)
2009-04-10 Creating an iPhone xib-file from scratch in Interface Builder (IB)
by Henrik B (over at Humble Coder)
2009-03-31 Making an iWork-style toolbar icon
by Anne K Halsall (over at Random Non Sequitur)
2009-03-19 Programming model of NSViewController
by Jong Am (over at Something About Programming)
2009-03-15 Custom NSThemeFrame
by Patrick Geiller (over at Parmanoir)
2009-03-12 NSWindowController, NSViewController and UIViewController
by Jong Am (over at Something About Programming)
2009-02-03 Demystifying View Controllers and Views
by Bill Dudney (over at PrEV)
2008-12-12 Drawing a custom window on Mac OS X
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2008-12-09 Gloss-Caustic Shading
by Roy Ratcliffe (over at Pioneering Software)
2008-11-27 A Bindable Custom NSView Subclass
by Tim Isted (over at Blog @ Tim Isted)
2008-11-15 Drawing Images, Texts and Shadows
by Matteo Bertozzi (over at Th30z)
2008-11-08 Horizontal Box
by Matteo Bertozzi (over at Th30z)
2008-10-20 Working without a nib, Part 7: The empire strikes back
by Jeff Johnson (over at Lap Cat Software Blog)
2008-10-05 Displaying Line Numbers with NSTextView
by Paul Kim (over at Noodlings)
2008-09-03 Source List Badges
by Brian Dunagan (over at fill the void)
2008-09-01 Organising view controllers, continued
by Roy Ratcliffe (over at Pioneering Software)
2008-08-29 Organising view controllers
by Roy Ratcliffe (over at Pioneering Software)
2008-08-26 View controllers
by Roy Ratcliffe (over at Pioneering Software)
2008-08-10 beta 5, Sliders and Switches (Video)
by MDMstudios (over at iPhone Development Central)
2008-07-21 Better integration for NSViewController and NSView
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2008-05-25 Alpha Slider Tutorial (Video)
by Nitrex88 (over at iPhone Development Central)
2008-05-04 Tab bars from scratch in Beta 4 (Video)
by MDMstudios (over at iPhone Development Central)
2008-04-25 Beta 4, and UILabels (Video)
by MDMstudios (over at iPhone Development Central)
2008-04-20 viewWillDraw - a welcome addition to NSView in 10.5
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2008-04-20 Tab bars with Interface Builder (Video)
by MDMstudios (over at iPhone Development Central)
2008-04-11 NSWindow setResizable:
by Vincent Gable (over at Vincent Gable's Blog)
2008-03-28 Bindings, Outlets, Target+Action across multiple NIBs
by Patrick Geiller (over at Parmanoir)
2008-03-07 Creating a Custom Control with NSView
by Cathy Shive (over at KATI)
2008-02-22 Styling an NSTableView (DTTAH)
by Cathy Shive (over at KATI)
2007-12-11 Token Field Programming Guide for Cocoa
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2007-11-25 Working without a nib, Part 6: Working without a xib
by Jeff Johnson (over at Lap Cat Software Blog)
2007-10-28 Get rid of your code with Leopard
by Matt Gemmell (over at Matt Legend Gemmell)
2007-09-04 Rulers and Paragraph Styles
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2007-07-13 Pasteboard Programming Topics for Cocoa
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2007-07-10 Working without a nib, Part 5: Open Recent menu
by Jeff Johnson (over at Lap Cat Software Blog)
2007-07-10 User Interface Validation
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2007-06-26 Application Menus and Pop-up Lists
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2007-06-17 Working without a nib, Part 4: setAppleMenu
by Jeff Johnson (over at Lap Cat Software Blog)
2007-06-10 Working without a nib, Part 5: No, 3!
by Jeff Johnson (over at Lap Cat Software Blog)
2007-06-04 Working without a nib, Part 2: Also Also Wik
by Jeff Johnson (over at Lap Cat Software Blog)
2007-05-16 Working without a nib, Part 1
by Jeff Johnson (over at Lap Cat Software Blog)
2007-02-08 Text Input Management
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2007-01-08 Toolbar Programming Topics
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2007-00-00 Adding Drag support to an NSTreeController with Core Data
by Unknown (over at Allusions)
2006-11-07 Matrix Programming Guide
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2006-10-16 Control and Cell Programming Topics
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2006-10-12 Single-click renaming in NSTableView
by Jeff Johnson (over at Lap Cat Software Blog)
2006-10-03 Window Programming Guide for Cocoa
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2006-10-03 Introduction to Sliders
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2006-10-03 Introduction to Preference Panes
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2006-09-05 Speech Synthesis Programming Guide
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2006-09-05 Introduction to Sheets
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2006-06-28 Outline Views
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2006-06-28 Introduction to Drag and Drop
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2006-04-14 A Cocoa Application: Views
by Fritz Anderson (over at informIT)
2006-04-04 Table Views Programming Guide
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2006-03-08 Introduction to Cursor Management
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2006-02-07 Introduction to Segmented Controls
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2006-02-07 Introduction to Segmented Controls
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2005-12-08 Using Bindings with Pop-Up Menus
by Mark Szymczyk (over at Me and Mark Publishing)
2005-10-16 Showing a NSSavePanel as a sheet
by Geoff Wilson (over at pseudofish)
2005-08-11 Introduction to Search Fields
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2004-03-01 Your Attention, Please: Alerts and Sheets in Cocoa
by Scott Knaster (over at MacTech)
2004-02-05 Cocoa Menu Validation
by Chris Hanson (over at Chris Hanson)
2003-11-06 Introduction to Tab Views
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2003-08-01 Introduction to Dialogs and Special Panels
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2003-02-04 Introduction to Drawers
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2002-11-12 Introduction to Status Bars
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2002-11-12 Introduction to Combo Boxes
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2002-05-10 Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Custom Views
by Aaron Hillegass (over at informIT)
2002-03-28 How to Create, Load, and Use Multiple Nib Files
by H Lally Singh (over at Cocoa Dev Central)
1998-12-00 Delayed Messaging
by Mike Morton (over at MacTech)
unknown Creating an iTunes Scrollbar
by Matthieu Cormier (over at Deep Cocoa)